Dallas Quotes: Inspiring Words and Sayings about the Big D

"Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for"

"I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed"

T-Bone Burnett

"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination"

Laura Miller, Politician

"And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

"In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Dallas is a positive, get-it done city"

Laura Miller, Politician

"Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"The first game I played. We played against the Dallas Texans"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are"

Cyndi Lauper, Musician

"If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do"

J. Michael Straczynski, Producer

"I looked at a fetal development chart at the Operation Rescue Office in Dallas. I had a lot of emotions stirring up inside of me. That's when I decided that it was wrong in any stage of pregnancy"

Norma McCorvey, Celebrity

"I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Seat assignment didn't matter if you're flying Dallas to Houston and you did it 38 times a day. People just got on, you didn't sit next to your wife, and it was a 45-minute flight. It didn't matter"

David Neeleman, Businessman

"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

"I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I liked Dallas better because it was more deceptive, you could do more with it"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas"

Aaron Spelling, Producer

"I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy"

Bob Hayes, Athlete

"Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coaching staff, the same rule applies"

Bruce Jay Friedman, Novelist

"I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a lot of them came over. It's hard for them to come see the show. It's still hard"

Reba McEntire, Musician

"We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

"It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl"

Al Michaels, Entertainer

"I grew up in Dallas, with cowboys. I was the only guy in sixth grade with long hair and an earring. Let's just say I got a lot of, er, flak for being different"

Barry Watson, Actor

"The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in"

Trent Lott, Politician

"If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed"

Lewis H. Lapham, Editor

"Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets"

Bridget Hall, Model

"Warren Spector is amazing, and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office"

Mike Wilson

"Every six months I fly to Dallas to get botox and I also get collagen injections"

Janice Dickinson, Model

"Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas"

Mary Crosby, Actress

"During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"I'll miss everyone on Dallas so much, but I have a wonderful career ahead of me. I can feel it"

Mary Crosby, Actress

"I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too much"

Ted Shackelford, Actor

"I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it"

Eddie Bernice Johnson, Politician

"We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time"

Steve Kanaly, Actor

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